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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.
tacked her 25 miles from here, and rammed her until she surrendered;
all of which can be traced to a non-compliance with my instructions.
I do not know the particulars. If she has not sunk, she may be used
against the lower fleet. It would be well to caution them.
DAVID D. PORTER.
BEFORE VICKSBURG, February 27, 1863.
Maj. Gen. STEPHEN A. HURLBUT, Comdg. Sixteenth Army Corps:
Your dispatch sent by special messenger is just received. It may be
that some of the force is leaving Vicksburg, but I have no evidence of
the fact. It is impossible to get information from there. Even desert-
ers who come can tell nothing except of their own regiments, or brigades
at furthest.
It will be well to hold the division previously ordered in readiness
to be moved, as in that case, if the report should prove true that the
enemy are evacuating Vicksburg, they could readily be sent by steamer
to Nashville. I also have a force of about two divisions to come from
Saint Louis, which General Halleck can change the designation of, if
he becomes satisfied that they are more needed with Rosecrans than
with me. If you have not already done so, telegraph General Halleck
the substance of your dispatch to me. It would be well to telegraph
General Halleck direct all information you receive affecting the safety
of other commands.
U. S. GRANT.
P. S.-It is my desire that the division to be held in readiness to be
brought here should be brought to Memphis without any delay. I pre-
sume you so understood me, but I mention it now because I may not
have been distinct on this point before.
LA GRANGE, February 27, 1863.
General HURLBUT :
Brigade of rebel cavalry just east of Holly Springs, and railroad re-
paired and cars running into Holly Springs from south. Wolf River
now impassable. As soon as down, I want to send large force and
destroy road and route. The cavalry force for this purpose will want
co-operation of Lee's brigade.
C. S. HAMILTON.
LA GRANGE, TENN., February 27, 1863.
Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON,
Seventeenth Army Corps, Mississippi River :
GENERAL: A Mr. S. Ruggles, with papers from you to go down
through Mississippi, has just arrived here, and wishes me to communi-
cate to you some information which he has obtained, and which he deems
reliable, as it was given him by Captain McKissick, of Company A,
General Bragg's First Battalion of Cavalry. He says there are ob-
structions in the Big Black River, near where the road from Grand
Gulf crosses, which must be near the mouth. Two steamboats were
sunk in the channel, and so arranged that if a boat should pass the71
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